Mother's BoyIn 'Mother's Boy,' Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of belonging and not belonging, of being an insider and outsider, both English and Jewish. Jacobson was 40 when his first novel was published. In 'Mother's Boy' he traces the life that brought him there. Born to a working class family in 1940s Manchester, the great grandson of Lithuanian and Russian immigrants, Jacobson was raised by his mother,

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